microservice architecture

The article examines the security of microservice architectures in the context of common vulnerabilities that arise in distributed systems. The authors analyze the essence of the microservice approach, which, despite its advantages in scalability and flexibility, introduces new challenges in the field of cybersecurity. The main focus is on issues of access management, network configuration, and data protection during transmission between services, which can create additional attack vectors.

An approach to counteracting cyberattacks based on state machines within a microservice architecture is suggested. It focuses on intelligent analysis of actual and possible intrusions. The approach is devised for applications with a microservice architecture deployed on the Kubernetes platform. For purposes of the study, a special dataset has been developed. We have reproduced selected common vulnerabilities and exposures reported in 2024 and collected network traffic of intrusion cyberattacks based on them.